| |
| Abacus helps clients in the energy industry streamline data analysis processes, reduce data management costs, improve decision-making quality, ensure full compliance with regulatory requirements, eliminate inefficient and costly redundancies, ensure enterprise-wide consistency, and align business processes with corporate objectives. The combination of software, data management, systems integration, and consulting offers customers a unique seamlessly integrated solution that spans the wide spectrum of the analysis value chain. Integrated solutions help customers to bridge the challenging gap between overwhelming data and profitable and defensible action. |
| |
| Integrated Solutions |
| Systems integration is a key requirement in today's environment. Abacus offers seamlessly integrated solutions that help bridge the challenging gap between overwhelming data and profitable and defensible action. |
| |
| Modern Technology |
| Advances in hardware and software are enabling analytical solutions that were not feasible just a few years ago. Our systems capitalize on recent innovations and offer solutions that help you compete and succeed. |
| |
| Balanced Approach |
| Excessive focus on one area often means inadequate attention to other areas and can lead to analysis paralysis. Abacus Solutions offers a balanced practical approach that helps you accomplish your goals. |
| |
| Quality |
| Service and solutions quality is a top priority at Abacus. Moderate quality can be very costly, even detrimental. Our attention to detail and our quality assurance program offer tested and trusted solutions and help you act with confidence. |
| |
| Reliability |
| Abacus professionals are committed to proper follow-through and needed follow-up. We ensure you get your work done on a timely basis. You can rely on our products and services to meet your needs and milestones. |
| |
| Experience |
| Abacus professionals have broad and extensive energy industry experience. Our tools reflect our knowledge and help you benefit from our lessons and avoid the mistakes of others. |
| |
| Expertise |
| The extensive knowledge and insights of our seasoned professionals help you enrich the skills of your organization. We transfer our know-how to your staff and our tools help you translate knowledge into value. |
| |
| Responsiveness |
| Time is money and delays are costly. With Abacus, you will always get a timely response to your needs and questions. Our responsiveness helps you get your solutions at the right time with the right quality. |
| |
| Service |
| Customer support and service are our top priority. Our customer-focused approach helps you meet your needs and accomplish your goals. |
| |
| Accomplishments |
| Abacus professionals have a successful track record of significant contributions to the profitability of Fortune 500 companies. Our products and services help you make difficult decisions, achieve your objectives, and succeed. |
|
|
| Abacus offers a management team with a proven track record, recognized accomplishments, and broad skills and capabilities: |
| |
- Proven entrepreneurial skills and extensive P&L responsibilities
- Broad business management capabilities and advisory experience
- Extensive and broad problem solving skills
- Extensive senior management and corporate governance experience
- Strategic thinkers and industry thought leaders
- Effective communication skills and extensive speaking experience at major industry events
- Broad and established long-term relationships with key industry players
- Advanced technical skills and capabilities
- Effective and proven business development skills and experience
- Extensive knowledge and capabilities in software systems development
|
| Our products and services help clients meet today's business management challenges, gain and sustain fundamental advantages, and improve operational and financial performance. |
| |
| Software |
| Abacus software uses modern technology, capitalizes on recent advances in software and hardware developments, and benefits from lessons learned from ongoing difficulties encountered by established vendors. Abacus offerings include customized software, web-based ASP solutions, and outsourcing services. The first Abacus software product, SATURN, is an enterprise business management application that integrates key corporate functions including market pricing, generation analysis, contract structuring, trading, risk management, and finance. Through its modern architecture and design, SATURN facilitates transaction management and decision-making and helps comply with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley. |
| |
| Data Management |
| Abacus data services focus on data delivery. Energy companies are drowning in data - a situation not expected to improve as data acquisition costs continue to decrease and business data needs continue to increase. Abacus data offerings capitalize on data availability and customer needs to receive it at the right place, right time, right cost, and with the right quality; they facilitate the deployment and use of software solutions. Beyond data delivery, Abacus data analysis emphasizes the transformation of overwhelming data into actionable information. As data management challenges become increasingly difficult, the differentiating factor for energy companies has become the ability to process data and extract valuable insights and knowledge. Abacus offerings leverage our analytical capabilities, readily available data, and widespread data delivery mechanisms to deliver data analysis services, market assessments, and business insights to clients. Our data management tools include data mining applications and statistical analysis. |
| |
| Systems Integration |
| Abacus systems integration services help clients integrate data processing among disparate transactional, analytical, and enterprise resource planning systems by offering integration software tools and services. Our integration capabilities and tools are used to facilitate data transfers for the trading floor (front office, middle office, settlement, billing, and accounting operations) and miscellaneous corporate reporting and communication processes with senior management, investment and financial institutions, regional independent system operators, customers, suppliers, and regulatory agencies. The resulting integrated solutions enable streamlined business execution, reduced costs, improved data quality and consistency, reduced risks, and improved more confident decisions. |
| |
| Consulting |
| Abacus consulting services cover a broad spectrum of industry areas through a shared common perspective -- experience and expertise to meet clients' needs and create tangible value and immediate results. Our focus is on analytical and practical solutions that facilitate decision-making, manage risk, and meet business needs and regulatory requirements. Traditional hourly-billed consulting services are supplemented by multi-client studies, "invitation only" executive meetings, white papers, executive and senior management briefings, and strategy sessions. Abacus extensive services are a key building block of our offering- they enrich our software capabilities and enable clients to meet their business needs, and create tangible value and immediate results. |
|
